{"id":1233258,"date":"2022-01-23T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233258"},"modified":"2022-01-23T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:39:53","slug":"mike-pompeo-there-is-one-primary-reason-that-putin-is-acting-aggressive-during-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pompeo-there-is-one-primary-reason-that-putin-is-acting-aggressive-during-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo: There Is One Primary Reason That Putin Is Acting Aggressive During Biden Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-pompeo-there-is-one-primary-reason-that-putin-is-acting-aggressive-during-biden-admin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233258&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting aggressively during the Biden-era because the Russians do not view Biden as credible.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the situation with Russia amassing troops near Ukraine could be brought back from the brink, Pompeo said, \u201c<em>it\u2019s awful late.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real hard work of deterrence would have happened a long time ago, a year ago, when President Putin demanded that we give him a new START treaty extension, we gave it to him for nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they had Russian cyberattacks and they shut down the Colonial Pipeline, we told them you can only attack certain sectors, but 16 are off-limits. When we left Afghanistan in the way we did \u2014 those were the places where the administration had a chance to establish deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin saw this and so these tactical things today about whether our families will stay in Ukraine, we\u2019ve got to the right thing and take care of our families,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut these tactical things aren\u2019t what causes Vladimir Putin to recalculate his cost-benefit analysis. I think they don\u2019t see President Biden as credible. I think they see all this talking, these pieces of paper being exchanged just not credible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: <\/em><em>Lucas Tomlinson live from the White House \u2014 Lucas, thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joining us now, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, now a FOX News contributor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome back to \u201cFOX News Sunday\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MIKE POMPEO, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Good morning. It\u2019s great to be with you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: All right. Let\u2019s start with the U.K. and it\u2019s telling us that it\u2019s discovered a plot that Russia is trying to put a Russian-backed or Russian- sympathetic individual as the new leader in Kyiv.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The NSA here on the U.S., stateside, says this: This kind of plotting is deeply concerning. The Ukrainian people have the sovereign right to determine their own future. We stand with our democratically elected partners in Ukraine, a number of Russian officials calling this misinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Their embassy in the U.K. saying this: We are resolutely calling upon London to stop the stupid rhetorical provocations, quite dangerous in the current heated situation, and to contribute to the genuine diplomatic efforts aimed at ensuring reliable guarantees of European security.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Given word of this potential plot, which could it be done short of force, how does it play out? Where are we this morning?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>POMPEO: Shannon, it doesn\u2019t surprise me, I assume that the U.K. reporting is real.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vladimir Putin has wanted to put Russia-friendly leaders in the capital in Kyiv and control of that country for an awfully long time now. He\u2019s tried to do so through political gamesmanship, coercion, all the kinds of things, the tools of statecraft that are sub-rosa, not overt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now he appears to be massing troops not only inside of Western Russia, but inside of Belarus as well. A short run down into Ukraine from there, preparing coercive force, the capacity to change what the Ukrainian people want from where they are today with President Zelensky running an important country, a country that matters to the United States and wants to put someone friendly to Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, he puts this in the newspapers, in \u201cPravda\u201d, the Russian outlets. This is Russian propaganda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vladimir Putin knows that the Ukraine is not going to attack Russia. To suggest somehow that there is a threat from NATO or from the Ukraine is just propaganda, an excuse for Vladimir Putin to do what he ultimately wants, which is to extend his influence, his authority, his power, his control into the former Warsaw Pact countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: So, you mentioned the multiple fronts potentially unfolding. There is face-to-face diplomacy. Our Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, they\u2019ve had conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re told the next step in this is that the U.S. is going to provide written answers to some of Russia\u2019s demands. They\u2019ve included things like Ukraine can never join NATO. There are critics of this who think they\u2019re worried that the U.S., whatever we put in writing, Russia\u2019s going to use as a context for moving in. We\u2019re told that there are now conversations about getting our diplomatic personnel out of Kyiv.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This sounds like it\u2019s escalating. How do we bring it back from the brink? Can we?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>POMPEO: Shannon, it\u2019s awful late. The real hard work of deterrence would have happened a long time ago, a year ago, when President Putin demanded that we give him a new START treaty extension, we gave it to him for nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When they had Russian cyberattacks and they shut down the Colonial Pipeline, we told them you can only attack certain sectors, but 16 are off- limits. When we left Afghanistan in the way we did \u2014 those were the places where the administration had a chance to establish deterrence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Putin saw this<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting aggressively during the Biden-era because the Russians do not view Biden as credible. When asked if the situation with Russia amassing troops near Ukraine could be brought back from the brink, Pompeo said, \u201cit\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}